How to copy/paste from "Sorry, the application XXX has stopped unexpectedly"

An app just crashed and I want to copy the error message and paste it into a search engine to hopefully find a solution.

Unfortunately the error dialog does not allow me to copy/paste anything:

In particular the stack trace, which is very long. Typing manually is slow and unreliable.

Maybe the same details can be copied from somewhere else?

Note: Similar to How can I copy the text of an unreportable error? but with more details. If one must be closed as a duplicate, despite being newer I believe this one is more useful. It is de-facto more popular: 200 views there, 42k views here.

Solution 1:

All crash report data can be found in the .crash files located in:

/var/crash

And as stated here:

When sent a .upload and .uploaded file is added.
It includes a CoreDump: base64 field that can be quite huge though.

Solution 2:

Nope, there is no way to copy/paste. You can "vote" for this issue to be fixed at:

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1273752
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1606712